At the beginning of 1894, Zhou Yu did something that surprised both at home and abroad. He sold all the 10,000-ton and A-class pre-dreadnought battleships. Four of them were sold to Germany, and two were sold to Germany.
Sold to America.
The warships sold to America were purchased by the great spy George through a third country through special channels and by Uncle Sam.
This was something Zhou Yu did deliberately. George, Uncle Sam's super spy, was hiding in Hawaii and Zhou Yu had never touched him. He planned to use George to release false news to Uncle Sam and mislead Uncle Sam's sight.
Of course, before Zhou Yu sold the A-class Dreadnought, he renovated and renovated the hull of the ship. Zhou Yu also made necessary adjustments to some of the secret technology projects that were still kept secret.
The A-level pre-Dreadnoughts sold are just disguised goods.
But even so, people inside and outside the Chinese Empire feel baffled. Some ghosts believe that the Chinese Empire has no money to develop, so they have to sell off the A-class pre-dreadnought battleships.
The people within the empire don’t understand it even more! The little devil’s mixed fleet (joint fleet) has been formed, and it is still very powerful. At this juncture, Emperor Zhou sold all 6 A-class pre-dreadnought battleships, which is not in line with the actual situation.
Well!
Only the real high-level officials of the empire were vaguely aware of Zhou Yu’s intentions, which was to ‘seduce the greed of the little devil’!
At this time, the Chinese Empire had developed by leaps and bounds economically and militarily. Zhou Yu had secretly arranged it more than 10 years ago. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the empire's economic and military development had even further improved.
Great leap forward development,
Under Zhou Yu's deliberate guidance, the empire's industry also experienced a spurt of development.
The empire's railway and highway construction, planning, and construction of two major arteries in the north-south and east-west directions.
What is unknown to the outside world is that in addition to developing the economy, the empire has also embarked on a new journey towards high-tech military development.
Aircraft, tanks, aircraft carriers, and mechanized armored forces are all under secret development and preparation.
The Navy has finally eliminated all ship types below A-class and secretly replaced them with B-class and above ships. The D-class super-dreadnought battleship with a standard displacement of 30,000 tons is also under secret development.
It is worth mentioning that Sun Dixiang, also known as Sun Yat-sen, who was studying at the Chinese School in Hawaii at the time, returned to China and secretly met with Zhou Yu shortly after Zhou Yu founded the country.
At that time, Zhou Yu wanted to invite Sun Yat-sen to hold an important position in the imperial government, but Sun Yat-sen declined.
At this time, Sun Yat-sen, like later generations, formed the Chinese Alliance.
His ideal was to implement a republic throughout China, and Zhou Yu's early guidance did not change the political ideals of a great man. Now the Chinese Empire has been formed, and the laws implemented are also very fair and just.
Sun Yat-sen had no republican target, so he asked Zhou Yu to agree to let their alliance become an officially recognized, private supervision organization to conduct effective public opinion supervision of Zhou Yu's imperial government.
Zhou Yu couldn't ask for this!
Therefore, within the Chinese Empire, a non-governmental organization similar to the Independent Commission Against Corruption was born.
In 1894 (the 20th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty and the 27th year of Meiji in Japan), according to the Chinese zodiac calendar, it was the year of Jiawu. It was destined to be an extraordinary year.
The various behaviors of the North Korean rulers, who were content with the status quo, were arrogant and extravagant at home and incompetent at external compromises, which greatly intensified the class contradiction between the landlord class and the peasant class.
The whole of North Korea is caught in a heavy and growing anger, and this emotion has reached an irreconcilable level. This anger soon turned into an open riot.
On February 20, 1894, in North Korea, after just a few days of preparation, thousands of farmers in Gufu and Tairen, led by local Dongxue Dao leaders Quan Zhun, Cui Qingshan and others, swarmed towards the Yamen.
The Donghak Party peasant uprising broke out in North Korea.
After several large-scale battles, the North Korean government troops were severely defeated by the peasant uprising army.
The North Korean government was frightened and asked for help from the troops of Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai who were entrenched in North Korea.
After some hesitation, Li Hongzhang decided to send troops to "adjust" the war situation between the Korean government troops and the peasant rebel army.
Li Hongzhang's dispatch of troops made the little Japanese overjoyed. They finally found an excuse to send troops to North Korea.
At this time, the little devil is full of confidence!…
Their mixed fleet (combined fleet) was finally fully prepared and completed years ago.
Their combined naval fleet is actually very evil. It basically follows the arrangements of later generations. Even if Zhou Yu secretly killed the ironclad "Fuso", it was like a ghost. It was done by the little devil and it was still called the Fuso.
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The only difference is that in order to suppress the Chinese Empire, John Bull specially built a battleship of the same class as the "Inveres White" battleship for the little devils.
This battleship was renamed the "Shimonoseki" battleship by the little Japanese. At that time, the little Japanese were planning to rename the ship the "Yamato" battleship. However, in the end, the little Japanese made a strange mistake and named the ship the "Yamato" battleship.
The horse has passed.
This cannot but be said that history exists with inevitability.
The mixed fleet of the Little Japanese is basically a new type of ironclad ship that was put into service after 1890. The speed of their formation is basically maintained at around 19.5 knots.
The total standard displacement is 50,949 tons, 40 guns over 150 mm, 82 medium-caliber rapid-fire guns, 16 medium-caliber guns, 153 small-caliber rapid-fire guns, and 39 armaments.
And the battleship Shimonoseki is where the confidence of the little devils lies.
The Japanese battleship Shimonoseki was built at John Bull Portsmouth. Its overall length is 104.85 meters, its width is 22.86 meters, its draft is 8.02 meters, its standard displacement is 10,880 tons, and its full load displacement is 11,880 tons.
It is powered by a Cambon steam engine with dual-shaft propulsion, a horsepower of 6,500 horses, and a maximum capacity of 1,300 tons of coal.
A generator with an output of 800 volts.
The speed is 12.5 knots and the maximum speed is 14.73 knots.
Crew 440-470 people.
[Weaponry and equipment]: 2 twin-mounted 406mm main guns, one on the left and right sides, each weighing 80 tons.
The ship's main gun is arranged diagonally in the middle of the hull, between the two chimneys, and the turret can be driven by a hydraulic device to rotate freely.
Since the gun body is too long to be reloaded, the main gun is designed to be freely raised and lowered from an armored slope, so that the main gun can be reloaded repeatedly on the main deck.
[Armor]: The waterline armor is composed of 610 mm of iron armor, and the inner layer is 432 mm of teak.
The deck's armor is 76 mm.
The turret's armor is 432 mm.
The armor of the command tower is made of 508mm iron armor on the outside and 533mm teak wood on the inside.
What makes the little devil even more ecstatic is that the Chinese Empire actually sold all their 6 A-class pre-dreadnought battleships! Originally, the little devil was afraid of the Chinese Empire's naval fleet, but now? The little devil stole it. Happy!
Without the pre-dreadnought battleships, the Imperial Chinese Navy would be like a toothless tiger. What would the little Japanese have to fear?
In April of the Sino-Japanese War of 1891, the Japs mobilized troops on the pretext of protecting the Japanese overseas Chinese and swam to the interior of North Korea. There was a direct exchange of fire with Li Hongzhang's troops, causing casualties on both sides.
In early May, the Japs' army raided the Seoul Palace, kidnapped King Yi Xi of North Korea (Kojong Gojong of North Korea), dissolved the pro-Chinese government of North Korea, supported the king's biological father, and established the pro-China government with Kim Hongji as the actual leader. Japanese puppet government.
The little Japs instigated Jin Hongji's cabinet to sever relations with Li Hongzhang and "entrust" the Japs Army to expel Li Hongzhang's troops stationed in the DPRK.
At the end of May, the Japs mobilized more than 60,000 troops and launched a battle with Li Hongzhang's troops in Pyongyang, North Korea. They were severely defeated. Li Hongzhang's troops were lacking in logistics. Li Hongzhang's troops collapsed and were chased by the Japs in Yashan District. Li Hongzhang was defeated. , Yuan Shikai is missing.